Features of Sitecore

Sitecore provides many pre-built features and functionality right out of the box. These features can be extended and highly customized to meet the needs of your unique business rules. In addition, fully custom web applications can be layered in and fully integrated with other modules and tools using Sitecore as the core platform.

The following is a sampling of features included in Sitecore’s software:

• Content personalization - Tailor a visitor’s experience, in real time, based on their behavior. Content authors can create rules and scoring systems to deliver specific content to specific visitors.
   
• Multi-language content support with translation—Content can be maintain in any number of languages, providing on demand dynamic creation of a document or web page in any language. Easy integration with external translation providers for seamless translation.
   
• Mobile and multi-device support and output—Dynamically assembled content can be transformed to conform to virtually any output format, such as small device pages (i.e. PDA or phone), web, PDF or RSS for example.
   
• Social media - Easy to integrate modules including forums, newsletters, web forms, RSS feeds, blogs, surveys and more.
   
• Multi-site capabilities – One Sitecore license can be used to manage multiple domains, sub-sites and microsites. Publish content to one or more publishing targets (locations) are well as share content across many locations making site maintenance more efficient.
   
• E-commerce – integrate your existing ERP and e-commerce tool or leverage the Sitecore platform for content management, catalog management and more.
   
• Cross-browser role-based user environment—Supporting both PC and Macintosh environments with Microsoft IE and Firefox browser support.
   
• Built-in content staging (preview) environment—Content is initially managed within a built-in staging environment where users can edit, review and approve content prior to publishing for externally.
   
• In-context WYSIWYG content editing— The WYSIWYG rich text editor  is fully customizable and offers users formatting controls, styles, insertion of media assets and hyperlinks, spellcheck, find & replace, undo/redo, editing of tables and much more. Using the Page Editor interface content editing occurs in the context of a web page, where users navigate to and click on the content they want to edit.
   
• Content scheduling, expiration and archiving—Content stakeholders have full control over the scheduled publishing, expiration and archiving of content.
   
• Content permissions, versioning and workflow—Structured and document-based content use the same permission, versioning and workflow functionality.
   
• Content reuse, aggregation and syndication—Based on XML content repository, Sitecore enables easy reuse of content across multiple documents or web pages. In addition, facilities to aggregate content from various external data sources, such as Document Management Systems, enable the production of documents and web pages that share content form a variety of sources.